Digital Drop Box comprises a repository for assignments. If your professor asks you to use DDB it means that you can submit an assignment online and, usually, your professor will correct and return it online as well. Using DDB has a number of advantages over using email attachments:

• It is safer -- computer viruses are filtered out by Bb.
• Using Bb keeps your -- sometimes large -- assignments from taking up your email volume quota.
• Assignments submitted via Bb are remain in their Bb course site and are not sent about the Internet.

1. Add file	2. Send file

ADD AN ASSIGNMENT

Enter the Digital Drop Box

First access your course, then select the Tools option from the navigation bar. Note that the navigation bar for your course may not look just like the one on the right, as faculty have control over the look and feel of their Bb course sites. Still, the name of the content area is likely to be "Tools."
You will be shunted to a menu that includes several choices, often Addressbook and Calendar, etc. Click on the Digital Drop Box




Select: Add File

As suggested above the DDB takes two steps, the first of which involves adding the file to your Bb site. Select the Add File button.

Choose: File to add

First, give your paper a title -- this is the subject line your professor will see when s/he accesses the file. Next, use the Browse button to locate the file on your hard drive or portable media (such as a floppy or Zip drive). In the example below the name of the document is NJ.doc, and it is located in the Temp folder of the hard drive. Finally, add a comment -- this step is optional.






Select: Submit

	The action is not completed until you select the Submit button!
	After you have clicked the Submit button a window just like the one to the left will pop up reminding you that you have not yet submitted the file to your professor -- you must still complete the Send operation (see below).

Add: File Receipt

You will get a receipt assuring you that the file has been added to your site, and is ready for the next step: sending it to your professor.

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SUBMIT AN ASSIGNMENT

Send: File to your Professor

As suggested above the DDB takes two steps: first, add a file to your Bb site (see above). Second, sending the file to your professor. Select the Send File button.

Select: User and File

Select the name of your professor from the list. There may only be one name available (unlike the illustration below).
Open the menu next to Select File and choose the paper or papers to send to your professor. If you've only added one file you'll have only one option, but you can choose to add a number of papers (see above) and then send them all at once. The Comment area is optional.

Remember to click the Submit button in order to complete the operation!

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